Dorothy Parker - Convalescent lyrics

How shall I wail, that wasn't meant for weeping? Love has run and left me, oh, what then? Dream, then, I must, who never can be sleeping What if I should meet Love, once again? What if I met him, walking on the highway? Let him see how lightly I should care He'd travel his way, I would follow my way Hum a little song, and pa** him there What if at night, beneath a sky of ashes He should seek my doorstep, pale with need? There could he lie, and dry would be my lashes Let him stop his noise, and let me read Oh, but I'm gay, that's better off without him Would he'd come and see me, laughing here Lord! Don't I know I'd have my arms about him Crying to him, "Oh, come in, my dear!"